Ecclesiastes 4:11

The NET Bible®

Furthermore, if two lie down together, they can keep each other warm, but how can one person keep warm by himself?

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone?

Update Bible Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone]?

New Century Version
If two lie down together, they will be warm, but a person alone will not be warm.

Webster's Bible Translation
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?

World English Bible
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

Amplified Bible
Again, if two lie down together, then they keep warm; but how can one be warm alone?

English Standard Version
Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if tweyne slepen, thei schulen be nurschid togidere; hou schal oon be maad hoot?

English Revised Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth: but how can one be warm alone?

Berean Standard Bible
Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?

Contemporary English Version
If you sleep alone, you won't have anyone to keep you warm on a cold night.

American Standard Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

Bible in Basic English
So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

Complete Jewish Bible
Again, if two people sleep together, they keep each other warm; but how can one person be warm by himself?

Darby Translation
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one alone be warm?

Easy-to-Read Version
If two people sleep together, they will be warm. But a person sleeping alone will not be warm.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

King James Version (1611)
Againe, if two lye together, then they haue heate; but howe can one be warme alone?

New Life Bible
And if two lie down together, they keep warm. But how can one be warm alone?

New Revised Standard
Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also if two sleepe together, then shall they haue heate: but to one how should there be heate?

George Lamsa Translation
Again, if two sleep together, they will be warm; but how can one be warm alone?

Good News Translation
If it is cold, two can sleep together and stay warm, but how can you keep warm by yourself

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover, if two lie together, then have they warmth, - but how can, one, have warmth?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

Revised Standard Version
Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Agayne, when two sleepe together they are warme: but howe can a body be warme alone?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also if two should lie together, they also get heat: but how shall one be warmed alone?

Christian Standard Bible®
Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm?

Hebrew Names Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

King James Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

Lexham English Bible
Also if two lie together, they can keep each other warm. But how can one person be warm?

Literal Translation
Also if two lie together , then they have warmth; but for one, how is he warm?

Young's Literal Translation
Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Agayne, when two slepe together, they are warme: but how can a body be warme alone?

THE MESSAGE
Two in a bed warm each other. Alone, you shiver all night.

New American Standard Bible
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

New King James Version
Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

Legacy Standard Bible
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

Contextual Overview

⁷ So I again considered another futile thing on earth: ⁸ A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is futile and a burdensome task! ⁹ Two people are better than one, because they can reap more benefit from their labor. ¹⁰ For if they fall, one will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to help him up. ¹¹ Furthermore, if two lie down together, they can keep each other warm, but how can one person keep warm by himself? ¹² Although an assailant may overpower one person, two can withstand him. Moreover, a three-stranded cord is not quickly broken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 1:1, 1 Kings 1:2

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:14
Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me."

Genesis 4:15
But the Lord said to him, "All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much." Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

Genesis 4:16
So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:19
Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

Genesis 4:21
The name of his brother was Jubal; he was the first of all who play the harp and the flute.

Genesis 4:26
And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord .

Job 16:18
"O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

Isaiah 26:21
For look, the Lord is coming out of the place where he lives, to punish the sin of those who live on the earth. The earth will display the blood shed on it; it will no longer cover up its slain.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat,.... The Targum adds, in the winter; when it is a cold season, they warm one another by lying together. The Targum interprets it of a man and his wife; it is true of others; see 1 Kings 1:1;

but how can one be warm [alone]? not soon, nor easily, in time of cold weather. This is true in a spiritual sense of persons in a Christian communion and religious society; when they are grown cold in their love, lukewarm in their affections, and backward and indifferent to spiritual exercises, yet by Christian conversation may be stirred up to love and good works: so two cold flints struck against each other, fire comes out of them; and even two cold Christians, when they come to talk with each other about spiritual things, and feel one another's spirits, they presently glow in their affections to each other, and to divine things; and especially if Christ joins them with his presence, as he did the two disciples going to Emmaus, then their hearts burn within them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

A second - Any one associated or connected with him.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Compare a saying from the Talmud: “A man without companions is like the left hand without the right.”